Mark Wahlberg as Dirk Diggler, the character based on John Holmes, in the movie Boogie Nights. I don’t know whether to er charge you double or er pay you.
They could never have imagined how horribly wrong it was all going to turn out. John and his new manager formed a friendship which was to last for Johns entire life.They lived close to each other in the Sam Fernando valley – part of the suburbs of LA. Outside of work they would hit balls here at the all American batting cage at their local mall and plan their rise to the top of the porn industry.
I have been accused of a number of things. A lot of things have been alleged about me.and nothing has ever been actually proven. For some Bill had a frightening reputation.ĪMERSON: Were people afraid of me? Yes. In the nineteen seventies the porn industry was rooted in organised crime and Bill Amerson was a player.
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After we would shoot a reel, we would always take it out, and it would go with someone to a certain location so there was never any evidence that we had shot anything, and the profit was pretty strong, you know I would spend 7 or 8 thousand dollars on making a series of films, and I would get back maybe a 70,000 dollar return.īig money. When we got to the set the phones were disconnected immediately so no-one could call out in case anyone was a police informant. You could get three years in jail for creating a film and even longer for distributing it.ĪMERSON: We cast the picture through word of mouth ummm, we would meet, if we were gonna shoot on a Saturday, we would meet at 7 o’clock in the morning at a restaurant …err police always had an idea of that what we were gonna do so they would be waiting outside the restaurant …and what I would do was I would hire 4 or 5 people just for the morning, and give them $50 a piece just to each breakfast with us …then we would send out maybe 6 different cars in different ways so the police didn’t know who to follow. John Holmes may have been porn’s biggest star but he was also technically a criminal – because back then making a porn film was totally illegal. Guy with glasses: You just read about him everywhere, in all the magazines and everythingīlond guy: Yeah, just like everyone knows Kirk Douglas and John Wayne John’s most famous role was that of Johnny Wadd – a detective who he played in a string of feature length movies. Johnny Wadd was a cross between James Bond and a very Dirty Harry.The character made John a household name in America.īlack Kid: John Homes, big John Holmes? Yeahĭark Haired lady: John Holmes is attractive, and, I dunno I think he appeals to a lot of women Within hours John was cast into a porn film and so began his meteoric rise to the top of x rated cinema. He wasn’t very good looking and I didn’t even know if he could speak but what he had was something we probably all wish we had (laughs) According to Bill in 1969 Holmes walked into his studio looking for work.ĪMERSON: Went into the back room and took the Polaroid camera in and I asked him to undress, and when he undressed I knew we had a star. They know the real story behind porn’s most famous 14 inches. Bill Amerson is a former porn producer and Johns long time friend and manager.ĪMERSON: I was kinda like his mentor and his father and his brother and his best friendīill Amerson was one of a small band of pornographers working out of the Crossroads of the World offices in Hollywood. Most of John Holmes friends and colleagues are still living in Los Angeles. By the time he died in 1988 it had grown into a multi million dollar international business. His journey to porn fame began when he arrived in Los Angeles from rural Ohio in 1963. Back then porn was nothing more than a small cottage industry. Holmes was the inspiration for the character Dirk Diggler in the Hollywood film Boogie Nights – but John’s true story is far more shocking than the movie. During his career he performed in over two and a half thousand erotic films and claimed to have slept with over 14,000 women.Ī happy gardener is one with with dirty fingernails and a happy cook is a fat cook, I never get tired of what I do cos I’m a sex fiend. Holmes was porn’s first and biggest male star. It was like trying to suck a telephone pole. John Holmes had a 14 inch penis.Ībsolutely the biggest, penis, dick, cock in the history of the industry. John Holmes was living proof that some men are born more equal than others. It’s a tale that reflects the darker side of Tinsletown.Ī story of sex, drugs, more sex and drugs, more drugs and murder. The shocking and disturbing story of John Holmes, the 70s porn star and real life inspiration for Mark Wahlberg’s character Dirk Diggler in the film Boogie Nights.
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